a fortified and heavily guarded wall built in 1961 by the communist authorities on the boundary between East and West Berlin, chiefly to curb the flow of East Germans to the West. It was opened in November 1989 after the collapse of the communist regime in East Germany and subsequently dismantled.
柏林墙(1961年共产党当局沿东西柏林边界修建此墙,设有防御工事,并派重兵把守,主要用来遏止东德人向西德的流动;东德共产党政权解体后,柏林墙于1989年11月开放,随后被拆除)。